05-11-2011, 08:26 PM
Dakota wrote:
If the donor's requirements are onerous the school should simply refuse it.
Yup, you got it! I think my point was just to emphasize that the donor's requirements in this case are outside the norm, apparently because the Kochs don't trust that "the person hired isn't really a scholar of Marxism with perhaps a favorable view of it." I hope i've been clear that i don't think the Kochs have done anything wrong by putting conditions on the gift; if it's your money, you can do what you want. My questions are about the university's judgment in accepting those conditions, because i think it will hurt the school's reputation for academic independence. But it's not my call (or my school, or my state), so i'm really just opinionizing.
